Quotes About Abundance

We all live off his generous bounty, gift after gift after gift. [ John 1:16 MSG ]

Thankful people focus less on the pillows they lack and more on the privileges they have.

Here they all were together, idle above their fields, nobody hoeing, godlike; nobody weeding, New Year's in summer.

I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seeds every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

We need much less than we think we need.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

They were assured that they were going to be the only inhabitants of that milk and honey...

I want you to write down your blessings.

Rather I like to think of myself as charitable. The charitable say in effect, "I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you." Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

The gold of her promise has never been mined Her borders of justice not clearly defined Her crops of abundance the fruit and the grain Have not fed the hungry nor eased that deep pain Her proud declarations are leaves on the wind Her southern exposure black death did befriend Discover this country dead centuries cry Erect noble tablets where none can decry She kills her bright future and rapes for a sou Then entraps her children with legends untrue I beg you Discover this country from America

You can have all the cupcakes you want.

Tears were one thing–unlike money...that could never run out.

He has a lot of coats, said Philologos soberly.

I can't think of anything I'm not grateful for.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources—because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

Deprived thinking turns good things into less or nothing. Grateful thinking turns things into more.

We can be grateful for each opportunity to generously give.

know what we have left. This is an ongoing activity. Don't rush it. Take your time. Dedicate a notebook to writing down everything you have, everything you did get, everything you have left. No matter what your situation is—if you're in prison, in a hospital, in hospice—no matter who or where you are, you have something left and probably more than you know.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Today, everything I need shall be supplied to me.

Everything I need shall be provided today. Everything.